From these interviews I have learned many significant things. First off, I have learned that during The Great Depression jobs were harsh and people were unhappy. Workers did not recieve benefits like we do today. They worked long and tiring hours, and their jobs were very unsafe. As Mr. Garavelli said, working as a stonecutter was dangerous and many lives were often threatened. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/garavel.html Workers received low wages for their hard work and eventually they got fed up and started organizing groups called Unions. I also learned that many people were so desperate for money that they resorted to throwing rent-parties in order to pay their rent.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/bernice.html Also during this time, people were very careful with who they put their trust in. Like Mrs.Marie Haggerty said, you were hired for your looks. They wouldn't hire you if you looked dishonest. People also resorted to testing their workers which proves that they didn't have complete trust in them. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/marie.html Overall, many people were starting to realize that they were being treated unfairly. They believed that they shouldn't be treated in relevance to how much money they made and that they deserved to be treated better while doing their jobs.
After reading the interviews, I have have learned many significant things about how how people's jobs were impacted by their gender, race, talent, and physical ability. I have learned that African Americans like Jim Cole couldn't join the AFL Union just beucase of his skin color. This man had the skill to be a member of the Amalgamted Butchers and Meat Cutters, but he was turned down by a social discrimination.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/jimcole.html I also learned that many of their life were at a higher risk compared to many of the workers today. This was especially true in the contstruction feild and I know Chris Thorsten would agree. Companies provide many more safer job, but during the 1900s, as this 51 year old iron workers says, it was imposibble to conduct work with cranes without getting hurt. Risk is the job.Jobs got so stressful and just a big routine, that people even started new trends. This couldinclude singing while on the road, like what Clyde Smith did to flow with life. He just wanted to sell the fish and get his day's worth of profit along the streets of Harlem.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/clyde.htmlWomen were treated improperly and bribery or liquor increased their wages. Trust between the employees exsisted by a diminutive scale. Tests were random. Steps had to be taken carefully or replacements were distributed with humor. People were killed and animals were skinned by women as new trends. A woman named Mrs. Marie Haggardy can support the tension in shaking her job of a house maid right off. Picking up a dollar was all that could have been done, your would have been gone. The ranking in wages was critical and could have been sweeped away any minute of the day. All I could say is that the work force was a like a balance beam that could knock you off by racial segregation, gender, or skills of talent.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/marie.html
I learned that the working life fo many people was tough and very hard. I also learned that segregation played a huge role in the way jobs were distributed and valued.For example, a man in one of the stories had an opportunity to work for a major meat cutting or packing industry but was unable to fufill that job for an unfair reason. Which is that he was an African American, they didn’t want another African American working for them. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/jimcole.html I also learned that the working conditions for women were also very bad. For example, the women experienced sexual harassment by their imployers. If the women was able to withstand a slap on the rear they might recive a promotion or something else. That is sick ans very disturbing the way the women were treated. I gathered from the interviews that the cites back then were not something to be proud.
After listening to all these interviews, I noticed how everyone was speaking very pessimistically and no one really seemed hopeful about the future. None of the speakers sounded happy or the least bit content. Not any of the workers had anything positive to say about their job. In this interview, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/6.wav, the man is explaining how he thought New York was an awful city to live because of how poor people were cheated out of the few things they had. There was shooting and cutting in New York; this man says he’s in New York, but New York’s not in him. He means that he’s a New Yorker; he just doesn’t cheat people out of their money like other citizens there do. In http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/11.wav, the man talks about why he wasn’t let into the AFL union just because he was African American. He said the union wouldn’t say it to his face that he couldn’t join because of his race, but he knew it was the reason. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/3a.wav, the man’s response to if his job was dangerous was shocking to me. He said “you ain’t an iron worker unless you get killed.” I thought this was outrageous that he didn’t believe people could be considered an iron worker unless they were killed by one of the many dangers while working. He also said that he was squeezed by a crane and his collar bone was broken, his ribs, and three vertebrae.
From these interviews I have learned many significant things. First off, I have learned that during The Great Depression jobs were harsh and people were unhappy. Workers did not recieve benefits like we do today. They worked long and tiring hours, and their jobs were very unsafe. As Mr. Garavelli said, working as a stonecutter was dangerous and many lives were often threatened. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/garavel.html Workers received low wages for their hard work and eventually they got fed up and started organizing groups called Unions. I also learned that many people were so desperate for money that they resorted to throwing rent-parties in order to pay their rent.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/bernice.html Also during this time, people were very careful with who they put their trust in. Like Mrs.Marie Haggerty said, you were hired for your looks. They wouldn't hire you if you looked dishonest. People also resorted to testing their workers which proves that they didn't have complete trust in them. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/marie.html Overall, many people were starting to realize that they were being treated unfairly. They believed that they shouldn't be treated in relevance to how much money they made and that they deserved to be treated better while doing their jobs.
After reading the interviews, I have have learned many significant things about how how people's jobs were impacted by their gender, race, talent, and physical ability. I have learned that African Americans like Jim Cole couldn't join the AFL Union just beucase of his skin color. This man had the skill to be a member of the Amalgamted Butchers and Meat Cutters, but he was turned down by a social discrimination.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/jimcole.html I also learned that many of their life were at a higher risk compared to many of the workers today. This was especially true in the contstruction feild and I know Chris Thorsten would agree. Companies provide many more safer job, but during the 1900s, as this 51 year old iron workers says, it was imposibble to conduct work with cranes without getting hurt. Risk is the job.Jobs got so stressful and just a big routine, that people even started new trends. This couldinclude singing while on the road, like what Clyde Smith did to flow with life. He just wanted to sell the fish and get his day's worth of profit along the streets of Harlem.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/clyde.html Women were treated improperly and bribery or liquor increased their wages. Trust between the employees exsisted by a diminutive scale. Tests were random. Steps had to be taken carefully or replacements were distributed with humor. People were killed and animals were skinned by women as new trends. A woman named Mrs. Marie Haggardy can support the tension in shaking her job of a house maid right off. Picking up a dollar was all that could have been done, your would have been gone. The ranking in wages was critical and could have been sweeped away any minute of the day. All I could say is that the work force was a like a balance beam that could knock you off by racial segregation, gender, or skills of talent.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/marie.html
I learned that the working life fo many people was tough and very hard. I also learned that segregation played a huge role in the way jobs were distributed and valued. For example, a man in one of the stories had an opportunity to work for a major meat cutting or packing industry but was unable to fufill that job for an unfair reason. Which is that he was an African American, they didn’t want another African American working for them. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/jimcole.html I also learned that the working conditions for women were also very bad. For example, the women experienced sexual harassment by their imployers. If the women was able to withstand a slap on the rear they might recive a promotion or something else. That is sick ans very disturbing the way the women were treated. I gathered from the interviews that the cites back then were not something to be proud.
After listening to all these interviews, I noticed how everyone was speaking very pessimistically and no one really seemed hopeful about the future. None of the speakers sounded happy or the least bit content. Not any of the workers had anything positive to say about their job. In this interview, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/6.wav, the man is explaining how he thought New York was an awful city to live because of how poor people were cheated out of the few things they had. There was shooting and cutting in New York; this man says he’s in New York, but New York’s not in him. He means that he’s a New Yorker; he just doesn’t cheat people out of their money like other citizens there do. In http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/11.wav, the man talks about why he wasn’t let into the AFL union just because he was African American. He said the union wouldn’t say it to his face that he couldn’t join because of his race, but he knew it was the reason. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/3a.wav, the man’s response to if his job was dangerous was shocking to me. He said “you ain’t an iron worker unless you get killed.” I thought this was outrageous that he didn’t believe people could be considered an iron worker unless they were killed by one of the many dangers while working. He also said that he was squeezed by a crane and his collar bone was broken, his ribs, and three vertebrae.